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EPT Cyprus Main Event champion Oliver Weis, Mikalai Vaskaboinikau with second trophy within a week
The European Poker Tour stop, this time held in Cyprus at the Merit Royal Diamond Hotel Casino & Spa, saw the names of all the champions revealed. The excellent numbers that graced the entire EPT Cyprus 2024 were capped off by the Main Event, where $1,030,000 awaited the winner. The last 6 players met in the Spade Trophy game yesterday and you could follow the battles from the final table on our website. There was also a $10,200 NL Holdem tournament and a $10,300 High Roller.
$5,300 EPT Main Event
Participation in the $5,300 Main Event came in at 1,284 entries, which meant a prizepool of $6,227,400. After five days of play, the last 6 players left in the field faced off for the championship title during yesterday's event. Oliver Weis had the best chance to do so with a stack of 18,505,000 chips.
First to say goodbye to the final table was the former champion from 14 years ago - Anton Wigg from Sweden, who was edged out by the home team Tsouloftas. He was later joined by Bobby James and Andriy Lyubovetskiy. Tsouloftas gradually worked his way up to the chiplead and after eliminating Mikhail Shalamov, went into heads up play with a chiplead of 3:1.
Heads up started better for the home representative Tsouloftas, who was still increasing his stack and at one point it looked like he had the German representative Weis on his knees. However, the opposite was true and Oliver Weis gradually rallied and managed to get to the chiplead. The fatal hand for Georgios Tsouloftas was the hand in which he held K2 against Weis's Q7. A seven on the flop was enough for Oliver Weis to rejoice in victory, taking home $1,030,000 from Cyprus.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
| 1 | Oliver Weis | Germany | $1,030,000 |
| 2 | Georgios Tsouloftas | Cyprus | $642,300 |
| 3 | Mikhail Shalamov | Russia | $459,000 |
| 4 | Andriy Lyubovetskiy | Ukraine | $353,100 |
| 5 | Bobby James | United Kingdom | $271,400 |
| 6 | Anton Wigg | Sweden | $208,720 |
| 7 | Anton Kraous | Bulgaria | $160,500 |
| 8 | Andrea Dato | Italy | $123,400 |
$10,300 EPT High Roller
The $10,300 EPT High Roller also made it to the final table, with 456 entries. For the winner, $865,700 of the $4,423,200 prize pool was up for grabs. Jumping into Day 3 as chipleader was Steve O'Dwyer, but in the end he had to settle for ninth place.
Sebastian Malec from Poland started the final table as the chipleader and eventually made it to the final heads up along with Ryan Mandar. The similar stacks of both players meant only one thing. The players agreed to an ICM deal before heads up, with $32,500 and the trophy up for grabs.
The heads-up play was fast-paced, and on the second hand we could already witness an allin call sitauction when Malec sent his second-highest pair into Mandar's top pair. After this hand, Sebastian Malec was left with just a few big blinds, which he sent into play on the next hand with a K9 that was not enough to take down Ryan Madar's pair of pocket tens. The latter eventually took home the trophy and a prize of $709,285.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
| 1 | Ryan Mandara | United Kingdom | $709,285* |
| 2 | Sebastian Malec | Poland | $697,115* |
| 3 | Jelle Moene | Netherlands | $386,200 |
| 4 | Stoyan Madanzhiev | Bulgaria | $297,000 |
| 5 | Lev Margolin | Israel | $228,500 |
| 6 | Adrian Cazacu | Romania | $175,800 |
| 7 | Daniel Myers | United Kingdom | $135,200 |
| 8 | Niklas Astedt | Sweden | $110,900 |
| 9 | Steve O'Dwyer | Ireland | $92,400 |
$10,200 No-Limit Hold'em
The $10,200 tournament had its final day of play yesterday, with 57 players in action. Only 11 of them were able to reach the bounty, taking the prizepool to $843,900 thanks to 87 entries. Adrian Mateos, who finished in 11th place, and Fahredin Mustafov, who was not allowed to see the final table, both reached the min cash of $21,100.
The winner of this year's $50,000 Super High Roller - Mikalai Vaskaboinikau had everything well in play in this tournament as well. He started collecting chips at the final table and was set to go into the final heads-up against Krasimir Neychev from Bulgaria with a double chip lead. However, the players agreed to deal evenly for $195,500 each, with the title going to Mikalai Vaskaboinikau. He will remember EPT Cyprus 2024 for the rest of his life after winning two straight trophies here!
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
| 1 | Mikalai Vaskaboinikau | Belarus | $195,500* |
| 2 | Krasimir Neychev | Bulgaria | $195,500* |
| 3 | Ren Lin | China | $109,500 |
| 4 | Farid Jattin | Columbia | $84,300 |
| 5 | Julien Sitbon | France | $64,800 |
| 6 | Viktor Ustimov | Russia | $51,500 |
| 7 | Nikita Kuznetsov | Russia | $41,200 |
| 8 | Hassan Nashar | Gambia | $33,000 |
| 9 | Kully Sidhu | UK | $26,400 |
Source - pokernews, flickr